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title: Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others. Who acts: Many persons, sake, one, nobody. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, wit
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 14

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Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others.

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**Who acts:** Many persons, sake, one, nobody · **What happens:** go, get, return, sort · **To what, where:** wood, place, one, explanation

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many persons, sake, one, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:18:14
# text = Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Many persons |  |  | the wood | now | for the sake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | the sake *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **return** | past | one |  |  |  |  | with a sort of explanation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | nobody | that one |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | explanation |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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